The Sunday Times:

Labour has slumped to its lowest poll rating since 1983, when Michael Foot was leader, as voters delivered a withering verdict on last week’s budget.

Gordon Brown’s party slipped to 27% – 16 points behind the Conservatives – amid growing concern about the government’s economic competence, a YouGov survey for The Sunday Times shows today.

If the results of the poll were repeated in a general election, David Cameron would storm into Downing Street with a landslide majority of 120 and a string of high-profile cabinet ministers including Alistair Darling, the chancellor, would lose their Commons seats…

The problem is, there won’t be an election in the foreseeable future. For after dipping in a toe in the electoral water last autumn, only to discover that if they dived in they’d be eaten alive, there will almost certainly not be an election called much before the required five years have passed.

Which means there probably won’t be one before 2010. But the British are resilient. If need be, the country can likely survive another two years of these incompetents this Government.

Interestingly, one Times’ commenter noted:

Alan Millburn’s assessment that ‘the next election is up for grabs’ is hopelessly wide of the mark as far as Brown’s Labour is concerned.

They have no chance.

How long before we start to hear ‘Bring back Tony’ ?

He whom so many in that same Labour couldn’t wait to toss overboard, of course.